Wandering Secrets

                  Waking up at first light with roosters crowing (I swear if I hear one more rooster at 4am I’m going to roast it alive) , walking up the streets as the morning dew slowly vanishes leaving a light mist behind. Watching girls combing their long black […]

It took me some time to start writing about Laos. What to say, where to start, what to show. And then I decided, I’m going to show you with words. Things that pictures cannot show you.         When I travel I place myself as an external observer, a marginal poet looking for […]

In our desperate attempt to find a decent beach other than Hainan at this time of year, we decided to head to Qinzhou, near Beihai. We could see some beaches on Google map but as usual they were untraceable in real life. Asking some people around, we came out with this name : Saniang bay. […]

Most of what amazes us in China comes from these little daily habits we don’t notice until someone makes them in a different way. China is full of little differences, shocking, funny, clever and sometimes disgusting to an occidental eye. Nevertheless the ancestral China is present in all its people habits, now dissappearing with the […]

We were the laughing stock of all our Chinese friends for wanting to visit a place like Anshun at this time of year. But we have decided to stop paying for tourist sights and try to find some peace in the real China. On a random Chinese website I’d found a few things to do […]

    One of the perks of being a backpacker is that our trips are budgeted. Money does not fall from the sky and there is no way that working a year in China gives us enough to do this trip without limits. So we are used to budgeting, which means we are also used […]

Writing travel guides is not an easy task. I can write it for myself because I know what I want and what I am looking for, but I don’t know what you are trying achieve with your travel. As I mentionned in previous posts, travelling is a personnal experience nearly imposible to compare to another’s. […]

My first months in china have been difficult, there’s no other way to say it. Work, food, language and especially people were hard to handle although not impossible. Months later I’m inthe same room as I was when I published 外国人, when I thought I would never survive this place, when I thought China would […]